Manuscript: London, Great Britain, British Library, MS Egerton 3051

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: GB-Lbl Eg. 3051

DIAMM Source Key: 1904

Folio(s): All folios

Date: c. 1500

Ca. 1500 (Staehelin 1972).

Location of origin: Florence, Italy

Provenance

1. The Benedictine abbey of Vallumbrosan order of Santa Trinità, Florence, 16th century?, inscribed: 'Est Monasterii sanctissime Trinitatis De Florentia anno D. MDLXXXXXXX' (sic); 2. inscribed, 16th century: 'Alberto Duro [?Albrecht Dürer] Intagliatore [engraver]' (f. 2r) (see Staehelin 1972, 64 for discussion of last inscription); 3. inscribed, 16th or 17th century: 'Di fr. salustio' (f. 1r); 4. Fausto Bandinelli, inscribed, 17th century?: 'Al mio confratello m[esser] fausto bandinelli' (f. 2r); 5. Nicola Benvenuti (b. 1783, d. 1867), composer and musician at the courts of Ferdinand III and Leopold II, inscribed: 'Di Niccola Benvenut ... ' (f. 2r); 6. Adrien Lenoir de La Fage (b. 1801, d. 1862), French composer and scholar: his sale, L. Potier, Paris, 15 December 1862, lot 1789 (see Catalogue de la bibliothèque musicale de feu J. Adrien de La Fage (Paris, 1862), 154); by the time of La Fage's ownership, some gatherings of original manuscript were already lost, and remaining folios had been separated into two sections, which were sold to different buyers at La Fage's sale; another section is now Washington, Library of Congress, MS. M2.1.M6 Case; 7. Boies Penrose II (b. 1902, d. 1976) of Philadelphia, grandson of Joseph W. Drexel, music collector: his armorial bookplate (f. i, pasted on the inside of the front cover); 8. Acquired from Penrose by the British Museum in 1931, through Quaritch, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).

London, Great Britain, British Library, MS Egerton 3051, All folios

Physical description

Material: parchment (with paper)

Number of leaves: vi + 61

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 178 x 128

Quire structure: Text version

Index / Table of Contents: A list of contents by Alfred Einstein with references to Ottaviano Petrucci's editions are given on typewritten sheets of paper inserted at the beginning of the volume (ff. ii-iv).

Other devices: 1. Original(?) ink foliation, i-lxi.
2. Modern pencil foliation, 1-61

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking	none visible
Ruled grid	none visible, Only justification lines sometimes visible. Text lines probably erased.
Ruling pattern	highly regular
Staves omitted from grid	never
Incomplete staves	never

Medium and colour of grid	Frequency	Folios	Note
brown ink	sometimes		Justification lines only. Text lines not visible.
Colour of staves	Frequency	Folios	Note
black	always
Ruling medium	Frequency	Folios	Note
single rastrum	always
Indentation for initials	Frequency	Folios	Note
none	always		Single indentation of music and text over ruled stave for every voice, normally
Extra space between voice parts	Frequency	Folios	Note
staves not ruled on grid	always		large space between staves 3 and 4
Space provided for separate text	Frequency	Folios	Note
provided, in dedicated space	always		Text written in empty space on grid between the voice parts.
Adhoc adaptation	Frequency	Folios	Note
notation extended into margin	occasionally	21v, 57r, 58v, 59r
notation and staves extended into margin	occasionally	18r, 22v, 25v, 38v, 39v, 55v

Copying of text and music

Language(s)	Italian, Latin
Order of Copying	music first always

Presence/absence of text	Voice part	Frequency	Folios
provided with single incipit	all except discantus	sometimes	ff. 2v-3r, 21v-22r, 33v-36r, 38v-40r, 41v-42r, 52v-55r, 56v-58r
fully texted with one text	discantus	sometimes	ff. 2v, 21v, 33v, 34v, 35v, 38v, 39v, 41v, 52v, 53v, 54v, 56v, 57v
provided with single incipit	all voice parts	often	ff. 3v-5r, 7v-11r, 13v-17r, 19v-21r, 22v-25r, 26v-27r, 28v-29r, 30v-33r, 42v-47r, 48v-49r, 50v-52r, 55v-56r, 58v-61r
provided with single incipit	all except tenor	sometimes	ff. 5v-6r
untexted	tenor	sometimes	f. 5v
untexted	all voice parts	occasionally	ff. 6v-7r, 25v-26r, 27v-28r, 29v-30r, 36v-38r, 40v-41r, 47v-48r, 49v-50r
provided with single incipit	all except altus	occasionally	ff. 11v-13r, 17v-18r
untexted	altus	occasionally	ff. 12r, 13r, 18r, 19r
provided with single incipit	all except altus and bassus	rarely	ff. 18v-19r
untexted	bassus	occasionally	f. 19r

Music

Colour(s) of notation	black
Type(s) of notation	void mensural
Type of notation note	rhomboid shaped notation
Monophonic notation	absent
Level of calligraphy	high

Non verbal performance instructions	Folios	Note
repeat signs	3v-4r, 21v-22r, 23v-24r, 25v-26r, 27v-28r, 30v-40r, 41v-42r, 43v-45r, 47v-48r, 50v-51r, 53v-59r,

Text

Types of script	cursive (humanistic)
Level of calligraphy	high
Colour(s) of text	red blue grey Underlaid text written in grey (diluted black) ink with voice names in red (tenor) and blue (altus and bassus).
Multiple texts	no
Text repetitions	none
Abbreviations	none
Non underlaid vocal text	additional 3v-22r, 33v-42r, 52v-53v, 54v-55r, 56v-57v
Liminary text	Trimmed attribution (f. 20r), 20r
Later changes	Added text: ff. 8v, 16r, 22r, 34r, 36r (underlaid text) and 60v (additional stanza). , 8v, 16r, 22r, 34r, 36r, 60v

Decoration

Level of Decoration	n/a

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